Before digging deeper, or throwing this approach to the trashcan, I'm asking you for some advice.

I'm deploying an EAR with a WAR and some JARs.

EAR

- WAR

| - classes

| - lib

| - configfiles ...

- JARs

In the classes of the WAR is an JAX-WS annotated EJB (Stateless). The @HandlerChain annotation gets resolved but the class mentioned in the handler-chain.xml couldn't be loaded ...? No matter if I put the jar into WAR/lib, or extract the contents and put it into WAR/classes. I tried the JBoss lib folder too. The only thing I get is

After enabling verbose classloader output, I saw that the missing class gets loaded ... but the ClassNotFound still occurs.

Can anyone help me, to configure things correctly? I tried jboss-classloading.xml examples, added/removed/edited Manifest entries, copied the required jar in the jboss/lib folder ... no way to get things working ...